THE AMERICAS: Solidarity Has Triumphed

Cuba's sticky tropical heat hung heavily over Havana last week, wilted the neat white suits of solemn Pan-American Conference delegates, kindled explosive oaths in the voices of bustling foreign newsmen, sent little rivulets of perspiration streaming down the beaming faces of 5,000 convening Lions. But the vibrating activity of Havana rose with the temperature as the Conference week rolled on to completion.

By 9:45 every morning crowds of Latin-American delegates had already passed through the great sculptured doors of Cuba's $20,000,000 Capitolio, stood chatting in the lobby at the head of the long...

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